Phd in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH

email: marilena.fatigante@uniroma1.it
phone: 3490595373
building: via dei Marsi 78
room: 311

Current Position
Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Dipartimento dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione Università “Sapienza” di Roma
Psychotherapist in Psychoanalytic Therapy of the Child and the Adolescent (ASNE-SIPSIA)
Education
June 2009 –may 2010 Post- doc fellowship at the Dipartimento di Linguistica Università di Roma Tre on the project “Pragmatic and Interactional Aspects of Institutional Talk”
2006- 2008 Post- doc fellowship on the international research project ‘A comparative analysis of everyday life of families in Italy, Sweden and United States’, coord. prof. Clotilde Pontecorvo, Università La Sapienza, Roma
2000-2004 PhD program in Psychology of Interaction, Communication and Socialization, Università La Sapienza, Roma.
1992-1998 Degree in Psychology at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome under the tutorship of prof. Clotilde Pontecorvo.
Non academic professional practice
2001- 2010 – Professional practice as psychotherapist
2004- 2006 Psychodiagnosis and psychological counsellor with children and families at the IRCSS Clinica San Raffaele Pisana, Centro per lo Sviluppo Infantile- Roma, v. della Pisana
Academic teaching
2006-2008 Course in Developmental Psychology and in Psychology of Social Development in Adolescence , University ‘G.D’Annunzio’ of Chieti & Pescara
2003- 2006 Course in Psycholinguistics and Ethnopsychology, at the Institute for the International Exchange Study - IES Roma
1998-2001 Teacher in several courses for PhD students on “Methods of Transcription and Analysis of Conversational Data” University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Third University of Rome
Participation in research
2021 Principal Investigator in the project “Comunicazione e partecipazione di pazienti e familiari alle decisioni mediche in tempo di COVID: uno studio qualitativo multimetodo” finanziamento Ateneo Sapienza Grant 2021 - 10,000 euros
from 2011 to 2018 Participation in several research projects Ateneo Sapienza Grant, on the topic of Communication in oncological setting (PI: prof. Cristina Zucchermaglio)
2005- 2008 Participation in the research project “A comparative analysis of everyday life of families in Italy, Sweden and United States’ funded by Alfred Sloan Foundation (Program on Workplace, Workforce and Working Families), New York. Project coordinated Elinor Ochs, UCLA
2006 Participation in the research project financed by the Regional Agency of Civil Protection in Bologna, in collaboration with the Dept of Discipline della Comunicazione – University of Bologna
2004- 2006 Participation in the project “The Shoah for the “third” generation:, witness of the non experience”; principal investigator: Raffaella Di Castro.
2000-2001 Participation in the Project “Cofin 2000” on Discourse and Learning, under the direction of prof. Clotilde Pontecorvo
1999-2003 Collaboration in several research projects on Discourse, Learning and Disability at Dept of Linguistics Third University of Rome (PI: prof. Franca Orletti)
1996- 2000 Collaboration to the research project ‘The conversation in the family setting as an instrument for socialization, Sapienza University of Rome (PI: prof. Clotilde Pontecorvo)
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops (selection)
Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 14 Ottobre 2020- Convegno “Società multietniche, trasformazioni sociali e organizzative”, Dipartimento di Scienze della formazione, scienze umane e della comunicazione interculturale – DSFUCI- Fatigante “Gestire contesti sanitari ad alto tasso di diversità culturale” –
Tessaloniki, (Grecia) 16-19 jun 2020 (rinviata al 2021 , online) 1st Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP): C rossing identity borders in medical interactions with foreign patients” (co-authored)
Brescia, 13– 15 sept 2021 -Convegno AIP Fatigante, et al. “Il contributo degli accompagnatori e delle reti sociali nell’affrontare le cure oncologiche in pazienti italiani e stranieri”

Roma, 12-14 sept 2019 – Convegno AIP Fatigante, et al. “La comunicazione medico-paziente straniero in oncologia : dimensioni rilevanti nell’interazione nella prima visita”
Mannheim, July 2–5, 2019 IIEMCA Conference Fatigante, et al. “The complex journey of recommending a treatment in oncological setting: When is the patient's acceptance enough?”
Bologna, IADA Conference, 9-14 oct 2017 Slow literacy practices for managing temporality in oncology visits" (co-authored )
New Orleans, ICCH (International Conference on Communication in healthcare) oct 2015 “CIM as cancer patients’ resource: an interactional analysis.” (co-authored)
San Francisco, August 16-19, 2014 109th ASA American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. EMCA (Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) "Information-sharing and treatment proposal in breast cancer consultations" (co-authored)
Los Angeles 25- 29 July 2014 -IVth ICCA Conference (International Conference in Conversation Analysis) “Socializing patients to medical knowledge and reasoning in oncology first visits” (co-authored)
Visiting researcher
mar-jun 2018 Visiting researcher at ILPGA (Institut de Linguistique et Phonétique Générales et Appliquées ) -Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle , Parigi (Francia)
apr 2015 Visiting fellow at the Dept of Anthropology UCLA, CLIC (Center on Language Interaction and Culture)
apr 2015 Visiting fellow at the Graduate School of Education University of Berkeley, California
International agreements
2018-2021 Erasmus Agreement + Programme Key Action 1 (Mobility for learners and staff) con l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Institutional appointments
President of the Ethical Commitee of the Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione
Member of the PhD course :”Social and Developmental Psychology and Education, Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione
Member of the Commitee for the Internationalization Sapienza Università di Roma
Reviewer per le seguenti riviste:
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Psicologia Sociale
• Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata
• Rassegna di Psicologia
• Psicologia della Salute
• Research on Language and Social Interaction
• British Medical Journal .
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Journal of Social Work
• Health Psychology Open
• European Journal of Psychology of Education
Review Editor per Frontiers in Psychology, Sezione Cultural Psychology, Environmental Psychology, e Psychology for Clinical Settings
Member of scientific commitee Centro Studi Maurizio Pontecorvo, Roma
Member of scientific committee for:
1) EQuiP2020 Qualitative Research in Psychology in Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-20 June 2021
2) International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) 2017: Bologna, 11-14 ottobre 2017
3) Seventh Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies “Gesture – Creativity –
Multimodality”. Paris, France, July 18-22 2016 - Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
Member of
2012- AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia- Sezione Sociale) 2019
2012- AIM (Analisi dell'Interazione e della Mediazione) - Consorzio interuniversitario con corrente Sede presso l'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Publications (selection 2010-2021)
Norton, L., Giudici, C., Fatigante, M., Santini, I., Zucchermaglio, (in press) When in Rome, not all international students do as romans do. A survey-based typification of International students’ experiences and profiles at Sapienza University of Rome. Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies

Alby, F., Zucchermaglio, C., Fatigante, M. (2021) Becoming a Psychotherapist: Learning Practices and Identity Construction Across Communities of Practice. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.770749
Pino, M. Fatigante, M. Alby, F., Zucchermaglio, C. (2021): Two sources of miscommunication in oncology consultations: An observational study using conversation analysis. Journal of Applied Linguistics. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14822442.v1
De Luca E, Fatigante M, Zucchermaglio C, Alby F. (2021) "Awareness to touch": A qualitative study of nurses' perceptions of interpersonal professional contact after an experiential training. Nurse Education and Practice, 56:103187. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103187. Epub 2021 Aug 30. PMID: 34534725.
Almuhtaseb M. I. A., Alby F., Zucchermaglio C., Fatigante M. (2021). Social support for breast cancer patients in the occupied Palestinian territory. Plos One 16(6):e0252608 IF= 2.740
Alby, F., Lauriola M., Marino M., Fatigante M., Zucchermaglio C. (2021). A coding system for doctor-patient communication in oncological visits (ONCode). TPM- Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology
Fantasia, V., Zucchermaglio, C., Fatigante, M., & Alby, F. (2021). "We will take care of you": Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters. Discourse Studies, 23(3), IF= 1.603
Almuhtaseb M. I. A., Alby F., Zucchermaglio C., Fatigante M. (2020). Religiosity as a Cultural Resource for Arab-Palestinian Women's Coping with Cancer. SAGE Open, vol.10, n. 1, pp.1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019898730 IF= 1.54
Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C. , Alby, F. (2021). Being in place: A multimodal analysis of the contribution of the patient's companion to 'first time' oncological visits. Frontiers in Psychology, Research Topic on Discourse, Conversation And Argumentation: Theoretical Perspectives And Innovative Empirical Studies, vol.12, article 664747, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.664747 IF= 3.593
Fatigante, M., Antici L., Zucchermaglio, C. , Fantasia, V., Alby, F. (2021). Orchestrating children's action: an in-depth multimodal analysis of child-educator interactions in one Italian early childhood education setting. European Journal of Psychology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-021-00548-y IF= 1.483
Sterponi, L., Zucchermaglio, C., Fantasia, V., Fatigante, M. & Alby, F. (2020). A room of one's own: moments of mutual disengagement between doctor and patient in the oncology visit. Patient Education and Counseling - IF=2.607
Fatigante, M., Heritage, J., Alby. F., Zucchermaglio, C. (2020) Presenting treatment options in breast cancer consultations: Advice and consent in Italian medical care. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113175 - IF = 3.616
Relucenti, M., Alby, F, Longo, F., Miglietta, S., Fatigante, M., Familiari, P., Zucchermaglio, C., Familiari, G. (2020). Social media Facebook and You Tube usefulness in anatomy learning: experience at Sapienza University of Rome. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embriology, vol. 124 (2), 216-229
Sterponi, L., Zucchermaglio, C, Fatigante, M., Alby, F. (2019). Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit. Social Science & Medicine, 228 211–222 - IF = 3.616
Buonomo, I., Fatigante, M., Fiorilli, C. (2017) Teachers' Burnout Profile: Risk and Protective Factors. The Open Psychology Journal , 10, 190-201. DOI: 10.2174/1874350101710010190
Sterponi, L., Zucchermaglio, C., Alby, F., Fatigante, M. (2017). Endangered Literacies? Affordances of Paper- Based Literacy in Medical Practice and Its Persistence in the Transition to Digital Technology. Written Communication, 1-28, ISSN: 0741-0883, doi: 10.1177/0741088317723304- IF = 1.267
Alby, F., Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C. (2017) Managing risk and patient involvement in choosing treatment for cancer: an analysis of two communication practices. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN: 0141-9889, doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12598 - IF=2.122
Alby, F., Zucchermaglio, C., Fatigante, M. (2016). Communicating Uncertain News in Cancer Consultations. Journal of Cancer Education, p. 1-7, ISSN: 0885-8195, doi: 10.1007/s13187-016-1070-x – IF= 1.329
Zucchermaglio, C., Alby., & Fatigante, M. (2016) What counts as illness? Anamnesis as a collaborative activity, Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 471-487, DOI: 10.4473/TPM23.4.4
Fatigante , M., Biassoni , F., Marazzini , F., Diadori , P. (2016) Responsibility and Culpability in Apologies: Distinctive Uses of “Sorry” versus “I'm Sorry” in Apologizing. Discourse Processes , 53, (1-2). 10.1080/0163853X.2015.1056696 - IF= 2.074
Fatigante, M., Alby, F, Zucchermaglio, C, Baruzzo, M. (2016) Formulating treatment recommendation as a logical consequence of the diagnosis in post-surgical oncological visits, Patient Education and Counselling, 99, 6, 878–887. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2016.02.007 - IF=2.429
Alby F., Fatigante M., Zucchermaglio C. (2014) "What participants would like to know about research: beyond a formal procedure of informed consent in social psychology." Nordic Psychology, 66, 2: 71-93 – IF= 0.256
Alby, F., Fatigante,M., Zucchermaglio, C. (2014) Somebody is thinking about it”: Women as household managers in Dual-career Families. Journal of Family Research/Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 26, 1: 29-48 - IF=0.343
Fatigante, M., Orletti, F. (2013) Information Giving and Enactment of Consent in Written Consent Forms and in Participants’ Talk Recorded in a Hospital Setting. Human studies, 10.1007/s10746-013-9303-z IF=0.618
Alby, F., Fatigante. M. (2013) Preserving the Respondent's Standpoint in a Research Interview.· Human Studies:1-18; 10.1007/s10746-013-9292-y IF=0.618
Kremer-Sadlik, T., Fatigante, M. (2013). Investing in children’s future: Cross-cultural perspectives and ideologies on parental involvement in education. Childhood, 22, 67-84, ISSN: 0907-5682, doi: 10.1177/0907568213513307 IF=1.652
Demuth, C., Fatigante, M. (2012) Qualitative Cultural Comparative Research in Psychology: Challenges and Potentials. Zeitschrift für Qualitative Sozialforschung, 1-2, 13-37. ISSN: 1438-8324
Fatigante, M., Liberati, V., Pontecorvo, C. (2010) Transitions in and out of Games: How Parents and Children Bracket Game Episodes at Home. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 43: 4,346- 371 0835-1813. DOI:10.1080/08351813.2010.497631 IF= 3.273
Kremer-Sadlik, T., Izquierdo, C., Fatigante, M. (2010) Making Meaning of Everyday Practices: Parents' Attitudes toward Children's Extra-Curricular Activities in the United States and in Italy. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 1, pp.35–54,
DOI:10.1111/j.1548-1492.2010.01066.x. IF= 1.064

Papers in Italian journals
Alby, F., Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C. (2020) Narrazioni, testi e altre risorse: ragionamento clinico e presa di decisione in oncologia Rassegna di Psicologia XXXVII, 1, 1-8
Norton, L.S., & Fatigante, M. (2018). Essere studenti in una grande università italiana: strategie di navigazione e costruzione dell’identità sociale nel contesto ospite. Rassegna di Psicologia, 35(3), 31-43
Pauletto, F., Fatigante, M. (2015) 'Dai', 'da' na mano!' Tra il dire e il chiedere: l'uso del segnale discorsivo 'dai' in conversazioni in famiglia. Rivista Italiana di Psicolinguistica Applicata, XV, 1.
Alby, F., Fatigante,M., Zucchermaglio, C. (2014) Rappresentazioni discorsive dell’impegno domestico e familiare in madri e padri che lavorano. Ricerche di Psicologia, 1, 9-34
Fatigante, M. (2013) Presupposti culturali nella formulazione delle domande di medici ginecologi a pazienti migranti. In F. Orletti, M. Fatigante (a cura di) La comunicazione in ambito medico-sanitario e le sfide poste dall’incontro con i pazienti migranti. Salute e Società. XII, 1, 44-60.
Fatigante, M., Alby, F. (2012) Identità in gioco, contestazioni e strategie per una postura neutrale durante l’intervista. Rivista Italiana di Psicolinguistica Applicata, XII, 1/2, 81-98.
Fatigante, M., Fiata, M. (2011) Essere genitori: modalità di presentazione di sé e natura dilemmatica del discorso parentale nell’intervista a madri e padri. Rassegna di Psicologia, 3, vol. XXVIII, 39-70 . .
Chapters
Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C., Alby, (forthcoming, 2022) Overcoming language barriers: participation in intercultural oncological visits. In Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C., Alby, F. eds, “Interculturality in institutions: symbols, practices, and identities” for Springer Series: Culture in policy making: The symbolic universes of social action
Fatigante, M. (2021) L'analisi dell'interazione per la progettazione inclusiva. In P. Arcudi & S. Cavalloro (a cura di) SPI, Supporto per la Progettazione Inclusiva. Edizioni Unitrento Alby, F., Fatigante, M., Zucchermaglio, C. (2017) “It may also be the case that you say I don’t want to do it”. Imaginary scenarios as resources to argue for treatment advice in cancer consultations. In Arcidiacono and Bova (Eds.) “Interpersonal Argumentation in Educational and Professional Contexts”, Springer
Fatigante, M., Bafaro, S., Orsolini, M. (2015) ‘And You? What Do You Think Then?’ Taking Care of Thought and Reasoning in Intellectual Disability. In M. O’Reilly, J.N. Lester (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Palgrave Macmillan UK. Health, 597-617. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-42831-8_32. (Print) ISBN: 978-1-349-57695-1, (online) ISBN: 978-1-137-42831-8.
Fatigante, M. (2015) Chi osserva chi: interpretazioni dei partecipanti sull’identità del ricercatore in un ambulatorio ginecologico di gravidanza. In L. Mariottini (a cura di), Identità e Discorsi. Studi offerti a Franca Orletti. Roma, RomaTrE-Press, ISBN: 978-88-97524-23-6
Fatigante, M., Bafaro, S. (2014), "The journey to advice: Balancing certainty and uncertainty in doctor delivery of expert opinion". In A. Zuczkowski, et al. (eds), Communicating certainty and uncertainty in medical, supportive and scientific contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 157-181.
Fatigante, M., Orletti, F. (2013) Laughter and smiling in a three-party medical encounter: negotiating participants’ alignment in delicate moments of the interaction. P. Glenn, L. Holt (eds) On Laughing: Studies of Laughter in Interaction. Continuum Press
Fatigante, M (2011) Resoconto e narrazione nei colloqui di consultazione con bambino e genitori in M.Orsolini (a cura di) Quando imparare è più difficile. Dalla valutazione all'intervento. Roma: Carocci, 273-294
Book
Zucchermaglio, C., Alby, F., Fatigante, M., Saglietti, M. (2013) Fare ricerca situata in psicologia sociale. Bologna: Il Mulino
Interests and research areas

- Conversation Analysis
- Qualitative Methodology
- Practices of Transcription
- Video-analysis
- Ethnography
- Narratives of identity
- Reflexivity in research
- Institutional Discorse
- Socialization Processes
- Family Discourse
- Gendered Division of Labor in Domestic Domain
- Doctor-Patient interaction
- Clinical talk